Saman, symbol of oppressed women, an unaware subversive , as the prosecutor of Reggio Emilia Gaetano Calogero Paci defined her. Saman as Lia Pipitone , killed in Palermo for breaking mafia rules and having an extramarital affair. Like Maria Concetta Cacciola , a witness to the 'Ndrangheta, forced by her family to swallow acid. Like Francesca Bellocco , murdered in Rosarno for having ruined family honor.

A week before the International Day to eliminate violence against women, the Prosecutor's Office has added the names of other victims who paid with their lives for opposing a closed system to that of the young Pakistani girl from Novellara.

«The enormous contrast between her reasons for living and the system in which she is inserted makes Saman a universal figure. Similar to many people who dared to challenge the oppressive hood and the domination of the will in flawed value systems ", said prosecutor Paci, drawing a parallel between the girl's family and a Calabrian 'ndrina.

At the end of a whole day dedicated to the indictment, the Prosecutor's Office (in addition to Paci, the prosecutor Laura Galli) asked the Court of Assizes to sentence Saman Abbas's parents, his father Shabbar Abbas and his mother Nazia, to life imprisonment. Shaheen, 30 year old uncle Danish Hasnain and cousins Ikram Ijaz and Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq .

In the next hearings it will be the turn of the civil parties and the defense and then, only at the end, will the defendants be able to speak, if they wish. Shabbar, who wanted to do it today, was not allowed.

And so Paci took the floor, reconstructing the evidence collected and the context in which the crime took place on the night between 30 April and 1 May 2021. Saman's body was found a year ago, in a nearby farmhouse to the house where the family lived. "Saman ultimately expresses an eternal contradiction of the individual, between freedom and the desire for life and repression, authoritarianism, suffocation of any desire for autonomy ," he said.